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  • Serendipity SSCB#32 – Window Card

    Posted on by Julie 8 Comments

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    Welcome to  the June Challenge for Serendipity Stamps! This month the challenge is Window Cards. The special at Serendipity Stamps this week is Free Shipping on all US orders of $10 or more! $5 International Flat Rate Shipping on International $10 or more orders of UM, Cling, Dies only! Good through 6/11.  And as always, we have a  have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player.

    The design team has the added challenge of using another team mate’s card as inspiration. 

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    I was actually inspired by TWO team mates’ cards. Vickie’s card on the left and Jeanne’s card on the right. I like both of their bright red planes, Vickie’s die cut greeting and Jeanne’s window/frame. I used slightly different colors on mine and made a rectangular window for my plane.

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    After coloring my image with Copics, I die cut a cobalt blue window frame and a narrower white frame and elevated them slightly on top of my airplane image.The Imagine die was cut three times..out of white, yellow and red, stacked on top of each other, a little offset, and attached on the upper right corner.The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.
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    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Airplane 1261J
    Paper: X-Press It white, cobalt blue, red, yellow
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black
    Accessories:  Serendipity Imagine die 028DD, Copic markers, Spellbinders matting basics A & B dies

     Please be sure to visit all of the team blogs!

    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Vickie Zimmer
    Jeanne Jachna
    Jenny Gropp
    Julie Warner     (you are here!)
    Karen Amidon
    Marybeth Lopez


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  • Grad Girl & Boy

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    Clean & Simple (CAS) doesn’t come easy for me, but I thought I’d give it a try for today’s CAS Challenge (CAS275) on Splitcoast to make a quick, stackable card. On the girl grad card, it’s really only 2 layers…the additional ones around the girl are really only rings I stacked inside the circle cut out. After stamping the greeting, I added two newsprint Candi dots in the upper right. They are also pretty flat and definitely stackable. 

    These are the Copics I used. Pretty much the same for both…just minus the pink on the boy grad.

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    On the Grad Boy, again it’s only 2 layers which were die cut. I cut around the boy and added some scrap metallic silver behind him. Just a few stars were stamped w/ green ink and some punched & die cut stars added. Very flat and very stackable!

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     Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – Female Graduate, Male Graduate, Dream Big, Proud Greeting, Interlocking Star Bg
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, cottage ivy
    Paper: X-Press It white, pink, black, green, small scrap of metallic silver
    Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders circle & matting basics  A & B dies, Candi dots (on Grad Girl), star punches & Memory Box Precious Stars die (on Grad Boy)

    Thanks so much for stopping by!If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. You still have a few days to enter and this week the theme is Holey Moley  (use piercing or small punched holes). DRS images are not required so head on over!

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  • Pretty Peonies!

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    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Don’t you love these beautiful peony images? I think they are just gorgeous and I couldn’t wait to color them. For my first card, I’m using the Unabashedly Upbeat Challenge (PPUPBEAT1) on the Power Poppy Blog. I thought it was an awesome album cover but for some reason I remembered it having some lime green, so I added it. Anyway, I like the lime green added to the mix and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    I played around with the images for quite a while since my images are digital and I’m not really used to using digital on a regular basis. Originally, I had the peonies and the greeting all on one page, layered on a copyright free script ledger image and a gradient background I made.  You can see how it originally looked after I colored in the peonies on the image below. It looked ok, but a tad flat for me, so I printed out another background w/ just the ledger and gradient bg, fussy cut the original Copic colored peonies and put them together like you see above. I added a die cut black frame and die cut the greeting then attached my peonies on top using some dimensional silicone.
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Power Poppy – Peonies
    Paper: X-Press It white, black
    Ink: none
    Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders Resplendent rectangles, matting basics A & B dies, Gimp software (for making background)

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    On my second card, I used the Sketch Challenge  (PPSketch1) on Power Poppy blog. Again, since my images are digital, I printed out the peonies in a medium/large size and colored them with Copics. Usually I’ll just do an out of the box treatment on the image, but I wanted the peonies to be slightly elevated so I fussy cut them and attached them to a large white oval with foam tape. The green background was die cut w/ one of the matting basics dies then embossed for a little texture. I used the Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers to cut the 1/16th white mat before adding it all to a die cut coral layer. 
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    I had a little trouble with the two horizontal bands, and I actually ended up using the negative from a die cut flag and backing it with a textured white strip. Two Candi dots in slightly different green shades were added as a finishing touch. Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Supplies:

    Stamps: Power Poppy – Peonies
    Paper: X-Press It white, coral, moss green
    Ink: none
    Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders petite ovals, labels 16, matting basics A & B dies, Candi dots, MFT fishtail banner dies, Lifestyle/Quickutz embossing folder (Chevron set), Perfect Paper Crafting mini layers

    Thanks so much for stopping by! 

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    Challenges: PPSketch1, PPUPBEAT1


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